Jesse Kelly on Tucker — “We don’t need a military that’s woman-friendly, that’s gay friendly we need men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls, but we don’t have that now. We can’t get women off of naval vessels.”
December 16, 2004 Rough men - a poem By Russ Vaughn 'Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.'
—George Orwell (with a nod to the Mudville Gazette)
There's a character trait that's decided by fate Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late. They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire They have not the will to fight his fire with fire. So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair, Till they're faced with dragon breath fire in their hair. Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we, Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.
Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate, To possess not the courage to step up to the plate, Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war. But how can they know lest they've been there before? Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace, To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place. Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all, Who will rise to the challenge at their nation's call.
The faint—hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight, Have no comprehension of those who will fight. To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene. Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand, To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand, To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend, So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.
To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools. To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."- Fredric Bastiat
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell